Feds Warn of Ransomware Attacks Ahead of Labor Day

Though lots of people might be taking some time off over the Labor Day weekend, threat actors likely won’t — which means organizations should remain particularly vigilante about the potential for ransomware attacks, the federal government has warned. Citing historical precedence, the FBI and CISA...

Microsoft Exchange ‘ProxyToken’ Bug Allows Email Snooping

A serious security vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server that researchers have dubbed ProxyToken could allow an unauthenticated attacker to access and steal emails from a target’s mailbox. Microsoft Exchange uses two websites; one, the front end, is what users connect to in order to access...

Ethereum Contains Consensus Flaw During Block Processing

Impact A vulnerability in the Geth EVM could cause a node to reject the canonical chain. Description A memory-corruption bug within the EVM can cause a consensus error, where vulnerable nodes obtain a different stateRoot when processing a maliciously crafted transaction. This, in turn, would lead...

How to prepare for CMMC compliance as a defense industrial base supplier using the Microsoft cloud

In 2020, the US Department of Defense DoD began the phased rollout of a new framework for protecting their supply chain, known as the defense industrial base DIB. This new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification1 CMMC system requires regular audits that will bolster the security of the DIB,...

How to prepare for CMMC compliance as a defense industrial base supplier using the Microsoft cloud

In 2020, the US Department of Defense DoD began the phased rollout of a new framework for protecting their supply chain, known as the defense industrial base DIB. This new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification1 CMMC system requires regular audits that will bolster the security of the DIB,...

‘Pay Ransom’ Screen? Too Late, Humpty Dumpty – Podcast

Systems actively encrypted? Are they showing a screen that says “pay the ransom?” Too late: At that point, you’re probably toast. A few options, none great: 1. The painful and problematic process of recovery-via-backups if you have them and they work. You’ve tested them, right? No? Sorry: You can...

Microsoft, Google to Invest $30 Billion in Cybersecurity Over Next 5 Years

Google and Microsoft said they are pledging to invest a total of $30 billion in cybersecurity advancements over the next five years, as the U.S. government partners with private sector companies to address threats facing the country in the wake of a string of sophisticated malicious cyber activit...

US government and private sector agree to invest time, money in cybersecurity

In the wake of several high-profile ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure and major organizations in the last few months, President Biden met with private sector and education leaders to discuss a whole-of-nation effort needed to address cybersecurity threats and bolster the nation’s...

ckb-analyzer (>=0.37.0 <=0.39.2), ckb-app-config (>=0.37.0 <=0.100.0-rc2) +60 more potentially affected by CVE-2021-45697 via molecule (>=0.2.5 <=0.7.1)

molecule CARGO version =0.2.5, =0.37.0, =0.37.0, =0.4.0, =0.37.0, =0.37.0, =0.37.0, =0.40.0, =0.40.0, =0.37.0, =0.37.0, =0.37.0, =0.37.0, =0.1.0, =0.37.0, =0.39.1 and more Source cves: CVE-2021-45697 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-82HM-VH7G-HRH9...

GHSA-8HFJ-XRJ2-PM22 Certificate check bypass in openssl-src

The X509VFLAGX509STRICT flag enables additional security checks of the certificates present in a certificate chain. It is not set by default. Starting from OpenSSL version 1.1.1h a check to disallow certificates in the chain that have explicitly encoded elliptic curve parameters was added as an...

CVE-2021-39137

go-ethereum is the official Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol. In affected versions a consensus-vulnerability in go-ethereum Geth could cause a chain split, where vulnerable versions refuse to accept the canonical chain. Further details about the vulnerability will be disclosed at a late...

CVE-2021-39137

go-ethereum is the official Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol. In affected versions a consensus-vulnerability in go-ethereum Geth could cause a chain split, where vulnerable versions refuse to accept the canonical chain. Further details about the vulnerability will be disclosed at a late...

Design/Logic Flaw

go-ethereum is the official Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol. In affected versions a consensus-vulnerability in go-ethereum Geth could cause a chain split, where vulnerable versions refuse to accept the canonical chain. Further details about the vulnerability will be disclosed at a late...

CVE-2021-39137

The CVE-2021-39137 entry concerns go-ethereum (Geth). A memory-corruption/consensus flaw in the EVM can cause a node to reject or diverge from the canonical chain, potentially leading to chain splits as described in multiple advisories. A patch is included in the v1.10.8 release; no workaround is...

PT-2021-7369 · Unknown · Go-Ethereum

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: go-ethereum versions prior to v1.10.8 Description: A consensus-vulnerability in go-ethereum Geth could cause a chain split, where vulnerable versions refuse to accept the canonical chain. This issue is related to a memory-corruption bug withi...

Ethereum Go-ethereum 缓冲区错误漏洞

Ethereum Go-ethereum is a codebase from the Ethereum community that implements the ethereum protocol in the Go language. A buffer error vulnerability exists in Go-Ethereum, which stems from a product that can cause a chain split. The following products and versions are affected: Go-Ethereum v1.10...

Attackers Actively Exploiting Realtek SDK Flaws

Threat actors zeroing in on command injection vulnerabilities reported in Realtek chipsets just days after multiple flaws were discovered in the software developers kits SDK deployed across at least 65 separate vendors. On Aug. 16 multiple Realtek vulnerabilities were disclosed by IoT Inspector...

WARNING: Microsoft Exchange Under Attack With ProxyShell Flaws

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is warning of active exploitation attempts that leverage the latest line of "ProxyShell" Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities that were patched earlier this May, including deploying LockFile ransomware on compromised systems. Tracked as...

AuraBorealisApp - Do You Know What's In Your Python Packages? A Tool For Visualizing Python Package Registry Security Audit Data

AuraBorealis is a web application for visualizing anomalous and potentially malicious code in Python package registries. It uses security audit data produced by scanning the Python Package Index PyPI via Aura, a static analysis designed for large scale security auditing of Python packages. The...

Iranian Hackers Target Several Israeli Organizations With Supply-Chain Attacks

IT and communication companies in Israel were at the center of a supply chain attack campaign spearheaded by an Iranian threat actor that involved impersonating the firms and their HR personnel to target victims with fake job offers in an attempt to penetrate their computers and gain access to th...